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On Being Different
A recent journal entry on being different. The Teacher Speaks. . . . Take it this way. To be different means you step out from the crowd. When you, as an example, are different in your posing the question as well as answering with what it is you know and cannot see the difference, it…
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From Whence Cometh My Strength
Much comes to mind when I read Jon Katz’ s blog http://BedlamFarm.com which is a favorite. His problems I can relate to because my most formative years were on The Farm. When I write my memory is always sitting in some farmplace. His blog by guest…
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Argument With Crossed Signals
Another Argument with Crossed Signals There was a maxim often repeated when I was growing up that one never ‘tempts the gods.’ My ‘sense of’ justice and unfairness peaked early for me for which I was punished. When I was a child, I was puzzled that the big people did not take issue with this…
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Not A Whim Of The Potter
It is a wonderful play on words when we are given a phrase and then run like the wind with it. I was reading about a ‘sense of snow’ and the history of it. How someone with this sense can tell you many things when seeing a footprint in the snow and who made it,…
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Not In My Understanding. . . Orphans All
It was not in my understanding that the New Testament scripture so often quoted ‘ suffer little children and forbid them not, to come unto me for of such is the kingdom of heaven’ that the children would never grow up. If what was meant was innocence and wondrous awe I could believe. But what…
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A Considered Opinion
A Considered Opinion In Maria’s blog ( my cyber friend from fullmoonfiberart.com in recapping the story of The Red Shoes, brought to mind the fact that we especially in western societies put an enormous importance on independence. Women today feel they must contribute in meaningful ways to life or to causes that usually equate to money. …
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Come Into My Kitchen
Come Into My Kitchen There are some people one brings into the heart of the home, the kitchen, whom one at once knows they do not belong in this room. They are parlor people. I invited a dear friend and her family for dinner one day. Her son in law, a large…
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Resolution
When I talk in terms of quantum theory, of parallel worlds, or the profound effect the invisible has on the visible world, it was not going to have a name for me until this year of 2015. But a different head was mine from day one. Yet in the late 60’s when the tsunami went…
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There Is Unfinished Work Everywhere
There Is Unfinished Work Everywhere. There are some things I simply cannot go back to. As I read past journals, I do a lot of delving to see what I skipped over and what I did not integrate. I then see what direction I must take. There are some things I cannot go back to. …
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Privacy And Secrecy
There is a world of difference between privacy and secrecy. One can ask for privacy and choose it for one’s life but secrecy is another matter altogether. It is drawing a cover or placing some barrier between what one does on one side and with explicit orders not to be viewed by the other. Yet…